WENDELL CASTLE 1932 – 2018
1961 University of Kansas, Sculpture MFA
1958 University of Kansas, Industrial Design BFA
1932 Born in Emporia, Kansas
Awards
2018 Wunsch Americana Foundation Award, New York, NY 2017 Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award, The University of Kansas, KS 2014 Smithsonian Craft Show Award, Craft Council, Washington, DC 2013 Honorary Degree from Kansas University 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Rochester Arts and Cultural Council 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award. The National Association of Schools of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award. University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, Manhattan, KS 1999 Master of the Medium, The James Renwick Alliance of The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 1994 Visionaries of the American Craft Movement, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1988 Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts 1979 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Sculptor/Designer, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 1973, 75, 76 National Endowment for the Arts Grant(s) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Museum and Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA American Express, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Atlanta High Museum, Atlanta, GA Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI DuPont Center, Orlando, FL Forbes Company, New York, NY Gannett Corporation, Washington D.C. Gilman Foundation, New York, NY Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Monroe County-Greater Rochester International Airport, Rochester, NY Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, Design Collection, New York, NY Nations Bank, Atlanta, GA Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Steinway Company, Long Island City, NY Sydney Bestoff, New Orleans, LA Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH The University of Rochester, Rochester Centennial Sculpture Park, Rochester, NY Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington D.C. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL
Select Solo Exhibitions
2019 Wendell Castle: A New Vocabulary, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2018 – 19 Wendell Castle: Shifting Vocabularies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2018 Wendell Castle: Progressions, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2017 Wendell Castle: Embracing Upheaval, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2016 Wendell Castle Imagined: A Revelation of Creative Process, Rochester Institute of Technology University Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 - 17 Wendell Castle Remastered, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 Gathering Momentum, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2014 Wendell Castle: Unflinching Faith, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
2013 - 14 Wendell Castle: Leap of Faith, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK
2012 - 14 Wendell Castle: A New Environment, Friedman Benda, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Volumes and Voids, Barry Friedman, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms – Works from 1959-79, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Wendell Castle: Forms within Forms, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2011 - 12 Wendell Castle: Best Leg Forward, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK
2011 Wendell Castle in the 21st Century, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
2010 Wendell Castle. Rockin’, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY
2008 Wendell Castle. New Work, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY Wendell Castle: About Time, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Wendell Castle, Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, London, UK
2005 Wendell Castle: What Pluck! Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY
2004 - 06 Wendell Castle in Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2004 Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic, R 20th Century, New York, NY
2003 Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Wendell Castle, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY
2000 Furniture by Wendell Castle, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
1996 One Man Exhibit, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1995 Works by Wendell Castle, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Art Furniture by Wendell Castle, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL One-Man Exhibit, Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985 – 1995, A Retrospective Exhibition, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Ambiguous Objecthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO New Work by Wendell Castle, Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1993 Wendell Castle: Environmental Works, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75), Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1989 - 91 Furniture of Wendell Castle. Traveling retrospective exhibit: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1989 Wendell Castle: New Work, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Wendell Castle: A Decade 1977-1987, Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic 1968-1970, 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada Wendell Castle. Sculpture? Furniture? The Vanishing Line, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1985 - 86 Masterpieces of Time, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1985 Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1980 Furniture As Art II, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1969 The Furniture of Wendell Castle, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; State University of New York, Cortland, NY
1965 - 66 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1962 Inaugural Show, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH; Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY; Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Select Group Exhibitions
2019 - 2020 Memphis Plastic Field, Musee des Arts Decoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux, France
2019 UConn Reads: Game of Thrones. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2018 - 19 When Attitudes Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH Design et Merveilleux, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
2017 - 19 Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. Traveling exhibition: Dorsky Musueum at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY; Marion Art Gallery at SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Burke Gallery at SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY; Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Center for the Arts, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2017 dna10, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2016 – 17 Wood, Revisited, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Beyond Limits A Selling Exhibition, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
2015 NYC Makers, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2012 - 13 Unicorn Family, The University of Rochester, Rochester Centennial Sculpture Park, Rochester, NY Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2011 - 12 Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY The Abstract Forms of Pablo Picasso and Wendell Castle, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
NY Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle: A Selling Exhibition, Cheltenham, UK
2007 - 09 Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
2008 New Work by Wendell Castle: Works on Paper by Chuck Close, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Not Furniture: XXI Design, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Pop Art and Its Affinities, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Recent Acquisitions, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Good Heart, Gerald Peters Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2004 - 05 Black & White, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Outrageous Home, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ The White House Collection of American Crafts, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Right at Home: American Studio Furniture, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision of Contemporary Craft, The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
2003 Corporal Identity-Body Language, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Kanazawa World Craft Forum 2003, Kanazawa, Japan Triennial 9 Form & Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language, Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Teasing the Eye: Crafted Illusions, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2002 Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe L'Oeil Painting, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Embellished with Gold, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
2001 Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, NY Contemporary Craft in the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
1999 Recent Acquisitions. Decorative Arts. Traveling exhibition: Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Cincinnati
Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
1995 - 99 The White House Collection of American Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Handmade: shifting paradigms, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Japan Recent Acquisitions of Furniture, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1997 Renwick at 25, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Celebrating American Craft, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Designed for Delight, Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1996 – 97 Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1996 New Furniture: Beyond Form and Function, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs: A Marriage of Life and Art, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
1995 - 96 Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. Traveling exhibition: American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1995 Art for Everyday, Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating, The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
1994 The Object of Pop, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Furniture Fantasy, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1991 - 93 Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was. Traveling exhibition: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, City, MO; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Craft Today: USA, The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1989 - 92 Crafted Today USA. Traveling exhibition: The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Eommex Cultural Center-Zapperion, Athens, Greece; American Haus, Berlin, Germany; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway; Ataturk Cultural Center, Ankara, Turkey; Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Museum Für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Taidetollisuusmustoi, Helsinki, Finland; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France
1991 1991 Kanazawa Gran-Prix Arts & Crafts Competition, Kanazawa Culture Hall Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan Masterworks, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1987 – 91 The Eloquent Object: the Evolution of American Art in Craft Media since 1945. Traveling exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1989 Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 1988 Clockwork! List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 1988: The World of Art, Today, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1986 – 88 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. Traveling exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; The Denver Art Museum; American Craft Museum, Denver, CO
1987 New Work: Wendell Castle, Garry Knox Bennet, Fred Baier, Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1985 - 87 Material Evidence, New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1985 High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1983 Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1980 Sitting in Style, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1979 - 80 New Handmade Furniture, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1979 Paley/Castle, Wildenhain, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1977 American Crafts 1977/ The Philadelphia Craft Show, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Show, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1976 American Crafts '76, an Aesthetic View, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1975 - 76 Craft Multiplies, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1973 - 74 Innovations: Contemporary Home Environs, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1972 Woodenworks: Furniture Objects by Five Contemporary Craftsmen, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1970 Attitudes, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Contemplation Environments, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1969 – 72 Objects USA: The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts, Traveling exhibition: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH; St. Paul Art Center, Saint Paul, MN; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, Marcello Grassman, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Fantasy Furniture, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY Internationals Kunsthandwerk, 1966, Stuttgart, Germany
1964 United States of America Section at the 13th Triennale, Milan, Italy The American Craftsman, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1962 Young Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
Select Literature
Albrecht, Donald. Auto Plastic: Wendell Castle. New York: R20th Century, 2005.
Bates, Elizabeth Bidwell and Jonathan Fairbanks. American Furniture, 1620 to the present. New York: Richard Marek Publishing, 1987.
Busch, Akiko and Paul J. Smith. Objects for Use: Handmade by Design. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
Conway, Patricia. Art for Everyday. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1990.
Conway, Patricia and Robert Jensen. Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture
and Design. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1982.
Danto, Arthur C. The Endowed Chair. New York: Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 1992.
Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
Eerdmans, Emily, Glenn Adamson, Jane Adlin, and Wendell Castle. Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958 – 2012. New York: Friedman Benda, 2015.
Eidelberg, Martin. Designed for Delight. Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decoratrive arts. Canada: Montreal Museum of decorative Arts, 1997.
Falino, Jeannie. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. New York: Museum of Art & Design, 2011.
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter. Design and the 20th Century. Germany: Taschen, 1999.
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter. 1,000 Chairs. Germany: Taschen, 1997.
Garner, Philippe. Contemporary Decorative Arts. England: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1980.
Giovanni, Joseph and Davira S. Taragin. Furniture by Wendell Castle. Edited by Edward S. Cooke. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts. Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1989.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. New Furniture: Beyond Form and Function. Edited by Sara Benson. New York: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Herman, Lloyd and Matthew Kangas. Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in Twentieth Century American Craft. Missouri: Craft Alliance, 1993.
Joseph, Peter T. and Matthew Kangas. Wendell Castle: Environmental Works. New York: Peter Joseph Gallery, 1993.
Kangas, Matthew. Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. New York: American Craft Museum, 1995.
Linley, David, Charles Cator and Helen Chislett. Star Pieces. The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009.
Manhart, Marcia and Tom. The Eloquent Object: The Evolution of American Art in Craft Media Since 1945. Oklahoma: The Tulsa Museum of Art, 1987.
Miller, R. Craig. Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1991.
Miller, Judith. Chairs. London: Conran Octopus Ltd., 2009.
Milwaukee Art Museum. 1988, The World of Art, Today. Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988.
Monroe, Michael W. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1995.
Newman, Thelma R. Plastics as Sculptures. Pennsylvania: Chilton Press, 1974. Nordess, Lee. Objects USA. New York: Viking Press, 1970. diNoto, Andrea. Art Plastic: Designed for Living. New York: Abeville Press, 1984.
Rafferty, Rebecca. Art Review: Mentors and Makers at Rochester Contemporary. City Newspaper, 2011.
Simpson, Tommy. Hand and Home: The Homes of American Craftsmen. Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1994.
Smith, Edward Lucie. Artoday. England: Phaidon, 1995.
American Art Now. New York: William Morrow Publishers, 1985. Art in the Seventies. New York: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Furniture: A Concise History. England: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. England: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1986.
Recent Acquisitions to Inaugurate New Space at Brooklyn Museum. Antiques and the Arts Weekly, February 25, 2011.
Smith, Paul. Introduction to Craft Today USA, by The American Craft Council and Museum. New York: The American Craft Council and Museum, 1989.
Williams, Gerry, ed. Apprenticeship in Craft. New Hampshire: Daniel Clark Books, 1981.
Select Press
2019 Judith Gura, “Wendell Castle: A New Vocabulary,” The Design Edit, October 1, 2019.
Robert Dalheim, “Posthumous Wendell Castle exhibition showcases his legendary career,” Woodworking Network, September 10, 2019.
Alexandra Alexa, “Wendell Castle’s First Posthumous Show Connects His Early and Late Works,” CORE 77, September 9, 2019.
David Sokol, “Prepping Wendell Castle’s First Posthumous Show Was No Easy Feat,” Architectural Digest PRO, August 12, 2019.
Tracy Lynn Chemaly, “60 years of Wendell Caslte presented in New York,” domus, April 24, 2019.
2018 Kelly Crow, “America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track,” Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2018.
“Last Works Created by Wendell Castle Featured at Nelson-Atkins,” Artfix, June 12, 2018.
“Crossing Borders,” Crafts: The Magazine For Contemporary Craft, May/June 2018.
Alstair Gordon, “Wendell Castle’s Home and Studio: A Look Back,” Architectural Digest, April 2018.
George Lindemann, “George Lindemann Remembers Wendell Castle,” Cultured, March 2018.
2017 Mark Rozzo, “Form Follows Freedom,” Esquire: Black Book, Fall/Winter 2017.
Madalyn Alfonso, “Castle’s Curious Creations at the Dorsky,” The New Paltz Oracle, October 26, 2017.
Randy Gorbman, “Wendell Castle “Remastered,” WXXI News, October 7, 2017.
Nicole Gabe, “Wendell Castle’s ‘Embracing Upheaval’ at Friedman Benda,” Whitewall, July 24, 2017.
Marisa Bartolucci, “Musings on the latest Wendell Castle Show at Friedman Benda,” Modern Magazine, July 11, 2017.
Tiffany Jow, “Wendell Castle: Agent of Change,” Surface Magazine, June 19, 2017.
Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, “Carsten Höller at Gagosian and 13 More Things to See in New York This Week,” Artnet News, June 19, 2017.
“Wendell Castle. Embracing Upheaval,” Wall Street International, June 13, 2017.
2015 Jennifer Parker, “At Design Miami, Big Ideas Are Made Beautiful,” Blouin Art Info, December 4, 2015.
Nina Azzarello, “Friedman Benda Presents Ebonized Ash and Bronze Seats By Wendell Castle,” Designboom, December 8, 2015.
Katherine Roth, “Wendell Castle’s Latest Furniture Fuses Craft, High-Tech,” Associated Press, November 10, 2015.
Jana Perkovic, “Q&A: Wendell Castle, The Father of the American Art Furniture Movement,” Blouin Art Info, November 3, 2015.
John Gendall, “Mr Robot-o: Wendell Castle Goes Digital to Take His Sculptures to New Heights,” Wallpaper, October 23, 2015.
James Tarmy, “Robots Are Making Furniture That Costs $340,000,” Bloomberg, October 22, 2015.
Andy Beta, “Castles in the Sitting Room: Furniture as High Art,” The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2015.
Michael Slenske, “The Rebel and the Robot,” Modern Painters, October 2015. William Wegman, “Take a Stand,” Wallpaper, October 2015.
Katy Donoghue, “Wendell Castle,” Whitewall, Fall 2015.
Beth Dunlop, “With New Technology Wendell Castle Takes a Look at His Own Storied Past,” Modern Magazine, Fall 2015.
Daniella Ohad, “Wendell Castle Remastered,” Daniella on Design, August 27, 2015. Claudia Steinberg, “Voluminose Eleganz,” Kuntzeitung, June 2015.
Doris Chevron, “Hunter-Gatherers,” AD Magazine, May 19, 2015. Carolyn Meers, “Seating Arrangements.” Robb Report, April 3, 2015.
Kat Herriman, “Wendell Castle’s Organic Formalism.” W Magazine, March 31, 2015
Brittany Good, “Friedman Benda Presents New Work by Wendell Castle,” InCollect, March 30, 2015.
Tim McKeough, “New York By Wendell Castel at Friedman Benda,” Architectural Digest, March 16, 2015.
“Wendell Castle. Gathering Momentum,” Wall Street International Magazine, March 2015. Stephen Harrison, “Curators Eye,” Modern Magazine, Spring 2015.
Steven Hill, “American Master: Exhibition and Book Bring New Perspective to Sculptor’s Long, Iconic Career,” Kansas Alumni Magazine, 2015.
2014 Julia Cooke, Tali Jaffe, and David Sokol. “Cultured 25.” Cultured, Spring 2014. Meghan Dailey, “Wendell Castle,” 1stdibs, March 2014.
Christopher Kareska, “First-Ever Smithsonian Craft Show Awards Go to Wendell Castle and Albert Paley,” ARTINFO, February 13, 2014.
2013 Paul Laster, “Wendell Castle”, Modern Painters, April 2013. Trent Morse, “Wendell Castle”, ARTnews, March 2013.
Amanda Gordon, Amanda. “Amber Perfume in Brooklyn, 1.2 Million Desk: N.Y. Scene”, Bloomberg Businessweek, January 25, 2013.
Pilar Viladas, “Living High”, New York Times, January 20th, 2013.
Cynthia Trope, “A work by Wendell Castle”, cooperhewitt.org, January 15, 2013.
“Wendell Castle presents an installation of stack-laminated pieces at Friedman Benda”, Artdaily.org, January 14, 2013.
Stephanie Murg, “A new environment; by Wendell Castle at Friedman Benda gallery, New York”, Wallpaper, January 11, 2013.
Pilar Viladas, “Art House, Wendell Castle”, New York Times Magazine, January 10, 2013.
Mari Slater, “Profile: Wendell Castle on Furniture design as sculpture”, Whitewall, January 9, 2013.
Wendy Goodman, “First Look: Upstairs, Downstairs. Wendell Castle unveils A New Environment”. New York Magazine, January 9, 2013.
”Famed designer Wendell Castle exhibits at Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft”. Artdaily, January 3, 2013.
Sebby Wilson Jacobson, “Wendell Castle a Portrait of The Artist As A Very Young Octogenarian”, American Craft, December/January 2013.
2012 “Objectified”, Cultured, Winter 2012.
“Design Pioneer Talk: Wendell Castle.” Design Miami/Design Log, December 8, 2012.
“The Brief: Wendell Castle Turns 80”, Art in America, December 2012.
Natalie Axton, Natalie. “The Furniture of Wendell Castle.” Chronogram, December 1, 2012.
Wendell Castle, “500 Words: Wendell Castle.” Artforum, November 13, 2012.
Susan Hodara, “When Furniture Wandered Into Sculpture.” New York Times, November 9, 2012.
Kathleen Massara, “Wendell Castle Volumes & Voids.” The Huffington Post, October 25, 2012.
Rima Suqi, “An Extended Celebration of a Lively Career.” New York Times, October 17, 2012.
James Gaddy, “King of the Castle: Interview with Wendell Castle.” Surface, September/ October 2012.
“Wendell Castle: The Art of Furniture”, Popular Woodworking Magazine, September 12, 2012
Catherine McHugh, “Capture the Castle”, Array Magazine, Fall 2012.
Vladimir Kagan, “Reflections on Wendell Castle”, Modern, Fall 2012.
Elisabeth Vedrenne, “Wendell Castle: A L’Ecoute des Materiaux”, Connaissance des arts, March 2012.
“Memorial Art Gallery opens its 'Crafting Modernism' exhibit”, Democrat&Chronicle, March 2, 2012.
2011 Alastair Gordon, “Famous, Again”, The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2011.
Brent Lewis, “The Insider: Lorry Dudley.” Modern, Summer 2011.
“Recent Acquisitions To Inaugurate New Space At Brooklyn Museum”, Antiques And The Arts Weekly, February 25, 2011.
Rebecca Rafferty, “ART REVIEW: "Mentors & Makers" at Rochester Contemporary”, City Newspaper, February 9, 2011.
2010 Meghan Dailey, “A Perch With Flair”, Art + Auction, May 2010.
Brook S. Mason, “Furniture is just high art, like sculpture”, The Art Newspaper, May 2010.
2009 Phoebe Eaton, “King Castle”, Wallpaper, December 2009.
Donari Braxton, “Castle in the making. Wendell Castle’s Art by Design”, Clear, 2009.
2008 Katy Donoghue, “Wendell Castle”, Whitewall, Fall 2008.
“Floor Power, Move over contemporary art (‘wall power’), Design Art is taking the floor”, Wallpaper, October 2008.
Laurie Manfra, “Shifting shapes & Breaking the rules” american craft, October/ November 2008.
Judith Gura, “The shape of things to come”, Art + Auction, April 2008.